An installation/performance (four actors in a confined central stage with audience sitting, standing or moving around and above them) presenting a kind of cut-up, non-narratival interpretation of the death of the "Black Dahlia". The space within which it takes place is significant (in more than one sense) and plays a constitutive role in the surrealistic, dream-like ebbs and flows (and occasional abrupt outbursts) of the actors' movements and dialogue; Black is a dramatised presentation of both the events it 'portrays' and the broader collective processes of imagining and reification of those events (and the forces and compulsions lying beneath what is seen or consciously known, making themselves felt only through their effects and in shadowy hints at the edges of awareness and vision). Interesting and compulsive - I liked it.
(w/ trang)
